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Brian Lee Crowley is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank based in Ottawa. Before that he was the founding president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), where he remains a Senior Fellow. At different times he has been Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at Finance Canada, a member of the Editorial Board at The Globe and Mail, a tenured professor at Dalhousie University and a constitutional negotiator for Manitoba (Meech Lake) and Nova Scotia (Charlottetown). He is the author of numerous books and articles and has degrees from McGill and the London School of Economics.

The recently announced international agreement over Iran’s nuclear ambitions will be studied for years to come for what it teaches us about how to strike a good deal. Or in this case, how not to strike one.